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Randall Munroe (of XKCD fame) wrote a legendary check to Verizon afterwards in response to this incident. "What now, bitches?"

Unless anyone ever gets around to reading this blogpost from 2012 that covers this exact use case :

The one piece of the puzzle that's missing is the state. Suppose that a speed limit on a particular stretch of road is changed, but the software developers aren't notified in a timely manner. In this case, the state itself has been negligent, and it's the state itself which should be fined for putting motorists at risk. In the same way that the state must adequately signpost the speed limit, so should be it's responsibility to notify the state licensed self-drive software developers.

I've used speeding as an example of unsafe vehicle behavior, but this regulatory framework extends in a natural way to all vehicle behaviors - stop signs, following distances, red light rules, yielding to buses on residential roads.

From http://missingbytes.blogspot.com/2012/12/self-drive-engage.html

Arp's discordant redshifts were dead in 1975 when it was realized a uniform distribution of galaxies in a volume created the 1/z distribution of angular separation. Arp and supporters always ignored this. Details described in Discordant Redshifts: A Post-Mortem. Support among professionals has been rapidly dying off, in every sense of the expression, leaving mostly nothing but 'fanboys'.

One of Electric Universe claims greatest problem is where the power comes from to drive the claimed currents (see Challenges for Electric Universe 'Theorists'...).

Arp's discordant redshifts were dead in 1975 when it was realized a uniform distribution of galaxies in a volume created the 1/z distribution of angular separation. Arp and supporters always ignored this. Details described in Discordant Redshifts: A Post-Mortem. Support among professionals has been rapidly dying off, in every sense of the expression, leaving mostly nothing but 'fanboys'.

One of Electric Universe claims greatest problem is where the power comes from to drive the claimed currents (see Challenges for Electric Universe 'Theorists'...).

0.02 what? Let's hope Hungarian ISPs can do math better than Verizon!

I read where the vets are about 50/50 now, but with more women than men in vet schools. Used to be 80% male. Large animal specialties are still male. But is there a disproportionate number of female vets now?

Ermagherd! Finding this in my research. http://avetsguidetolife.blogsp...

It turns out that even the disparity between women and male veterinarians in female's favor is also because men are pigs!

But yes, there are a lot more female veternarians in school at the moment. Certainly in my area, they outnumber men by a large margin. After this group graduates, we'll see how the ratio ends up. Our Vet's office is around 15 females (not all vets), and one male, a technician.

You seriously think you can make a claim credited to a scientific study, and then when you can't show evidence that such a study claiming what you did was ever conducted, suddenly switch to a "but everyone knows" laden with old gender stereotypes and the standard lame appeal to darwin - and think that will fly?

In almost any sentence where people say "Women (verb)..." or "Men (verb)..." and it's about something psychological (as opposed to, say, something involving reproductive organs or a statistical difference in strength / height or the like), 99% of the time it's equally accurate to simply say "People (verb)..." The popular perception of differences between genders (including the effects of both brain structure and hormones) is often vastly different from the statistical reality. Screw Mars and Venus; men and women are from Earth. Psychologically, we're statistically virtually identical in most measures. And in many cases where there are differences that even manage to meet statistical significance, what differences there are may well be artifacts of culture.

How little are most of these "differences"? This set of graphs puts it into perspective.

Again: Either present your supposed "study" or drop the issue.

Indeed.

So where do I go to file a lawsuit against all them old mansions for 'displaying child porn' with the cherub stonework in full display.
Children abound.. some of them with their dangly bits out... 0_o

http://carvingswithstories.blo...

Looks like a sex act t'me guv.

For example: I've got every dynamically generated host from the CryptoLocker strain in my hosts (per Gar Warner http://garwarner.blogspot.com/ of malcovery & his posts here pointing to his research on them, & there were 1,000's I added to my hosts file from it).

* As they're known/discovered - I simply ADD them.

(It's easy since security researchers & security companies are on those like "white on rice"... every single time).

Hosts are FAR from dumb to use this way - they're easy to manage (text editors like notepad.exe even) for end users, with TOTAL control on their parts (not waiting for updates from addons OR having to know regular expressions), with less moving parts & redundancy operating from a faster level of operation in kernelmode (vs. layering over usermode browsers slowing them more with extra messagepassing), + doing FAR MORE, yet with less too (less resources in CPU + RAM use, see my original post on adblock's messes there in fact).

APK

P.S.=> Yes, it's THAT simple to cover fastflux or dynDNS or even dynamically generated botnet hosts to add into my custom hosts files... apk

Aye: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.c...

no housing allowed in the industrial zone

That's a silly law. It should be the other way around: no industry allowed in the residential zone.

Would you like to explain how those zones "keep the poor and minorities out of middle-class and wealthy neighborhoods"?

When you force every house to have parking (which people too poor to own cars don't need), you drive up the cost of housing and drive out the poor from the neighborhood.

You also drive out the poor with limits on dwelling units per acre, minimum liveable square footage, and prohibitions against granny flats, dorms, and boarding houses.

Well, here's a reference to that proposal that haven't gone away: http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2010/08/los-alamos-does-inertial-containment.html

Until as late as the 1850's, there were as many German speakers in Pennsylvania as English speakers, and until just before WWI it was common to hear people speaking German in the streets of any of the large cities. (There are still about a quarter million people in Pennsylvania who speak a version of German as their primary or daily-use secondary language, apparently.)
Likewise, in Colorado, there were so many German speakers that when Colorado became a state in 1876, the laws of the state were distributed, by law, in English, Spanish, and German, until 1914.
Those are the two states I know best: I presume many other states had similar situations.

...what can be adequately explained by stupidity.

They've been investigating this over at Go To Hellman:

Correcting Misinformation on the Adobe Privacy Gusher

I happen to have it on good authority that it has (or had) an over-heating problem. Search this page for "space plane" or have a look at item number 5 on this page.

There is even less chance of Rossi having developed a cold fusion device than there is of Moller successfully building an actual flying car.

Ha ha he he ho ho. Moller does really great brochure. I had a couple of them for years, even made a poster from the pictures. A friend had unsuccessfully tried to gather for a $100k 'pre-order reservation'. At the time I had a strong feeling probably held by many here on fusion... it really should work. Just around the corner... The part within us all that holds on to the dream. "The musicians were poised with their instruments. They were ready to go. It would only be a few seconds now, I wrote."

These days I I've let go of the Moller car and keep arms' length on fusion because because fusion is hard and LFTR is easy and the human race doesn't need to over complicate things when faced with existential threat...

Having exhausted my supply of patience and wit I just agitate, cantankerously.

Are you being willfully blind?

Muslim leaders have had to be badgered by WHO into revising their teachings in the face of Ebola.
http://www.esinislam.com/Other...
http://ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot...

Windows NT (includes 2K, XP, 7, 8, 2008, 2012 etc.) was "borrowed" from DEC:

http://books.google.com/books?...

DOS was "borrowed" from CPM

Doublespace was "borrowed" from Stac Electronics

MS Flight simulator...... etc. etc. etc.

Even thier "cloud" offerings stole search results from Google
http://googleblog.blogspot.com...

Microsoft has a long history of appropriating the work of others. No, unfortunately, these are real people whose livelihoods are stolen, not puppets from mars. A good friend lost his job at Stac after MS stole their product, stacker, then after losing in court, and having to pay $23M in damages, counter sued that the only way Stac could have created stacker was to reverse engineer DOS since MS didn't provide documentation that would have made such a product possible (exactly opposite what MS told anti-trust investigation). MS only got $3M back via their suit, so they acquired Stac, then fired everybody.

But, MS's theft as a business model doesn't seem to be sustaining the company. MS, while still fat with money is bleeding it fast, and has nothing, that is cash flow positive, except legacy stuff. People speak of the irrelevance of MS all the time-- it is not hyperbole. And, anyone who knows anything about MS business practices will not mourn their passing.

Hyperbole and a Half: PaRP

I mean, like, have you HAD Chipotle?

If you didn't have to install Slackware back then, be thankful. Just be thankful! 21 floppies for the original version And 1.44 MB ones at that.

I think I see an animal in there...

You're right. It's a (now nearly extinct) Babirusa or ‘pig-deer’:

http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-6...

...and it's actually a very accurate representation:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GScX...

They do a good job of cleaning it up in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Over at bufferbloat.net we have developed several pretty accurate bandwidth and latency measurement tests, that work at speeds up to 40GigE. We wrap the popular with the linux-netdev's "netperf" tool with something that can aggregate and plot the results, called "netperf-wrapper". The most popular test in the suite is called "rrul" which stands for "Realtime Response Under Load", but there are many others in the suite. It has been used to extensively tune several fair queuing and aqm algorithms, notably "fq_codel" which is in cerowrt, openwrt, and many other 3rd party firmwares. Its been used to debug network hardware, wifi, cablemodems, and most recently during the 40GigE batch-bql patchset now entering the linux kernel. Some examples of use to tune a smarter queue management system against modern day cable modems: http://burntchrome.blogspot.co... http://snapon.lab.bufferbloat.... There are also netperf-wrapper results for 40GigE, DSL, and wifi spread around the Internet. The intermediate format netperf-wrapper uses to store its results are in json and parsable by anything, and I keep hoping someone will get around to writing a web interface for the datafiles... Nothing else I've ever seen even comes close to netperf-wrapper for finding good, accurate, long term numbers and multiple forms of anomoly. Pretty much all the web based tests get increasingly inaccurate above 20Mbits. Single threaded TCP tests are bad also as they generally result in someone defeating TCP congestion avoidance in pursuit of the best benchmark numbers. [2] Far more important to the debloaters is not the bandwidth attained but the latency induced while getting it. [1] We maintain several public servers for netperf-wrapper, all connected via a gigE connection to the internet. Thus far we haven't overloaded them (nor advertised them widely), but if you want to give netperf-wrapper a try, and can't set up your own netperf server on the other side, feel free to ping us on the bloat mailing list for some addresses on various continents. [1] A brief rant: Bandwidth != speed. Bandwidth is capacity/interval. Real perceived speed is obtained via low latency. [2] I really hate that all the web network measurement tests don't simultaneously measure ping while running their upload and downloads. IF ONLY those tests would do that, people would start to realize that there is a huge tradeoff between good latency and high bandwidth, and that they are doing their networks in, by optimizing for bandwidth only. Networks engineered for speedtest's current test, *suck* for voip and gaming. I'd like to petition them to at least report ping times under load to the 98th percentile.

2006 ACM Programming Contest Poland 2nd and 7th in field of 12 http://it.slashdot.org/comment...

FROM THE RESULTS POSTED ON THE FRONT PAGE, FINAL SCORES/PLACEMENTS:

1. Saratov State University (Russia) - 6 problems
2. Jagiellonian University - Krakow (Poland) - 6 problems
3. Altai State Technical University (Russia) - 5 problems
4. University of Twente (Netherlands) - 5 problems
5. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) - 5 problems
6. St. Petersburg State University (Russia) - 5 problems
7. Warsaw University (Poland) - 5 problems
8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) - 5 problems
9. Moscow State University (Russia) - 5 problems
10. Ufa State Technical University (Russia) - 5 problems
11. University of Alberta (Canada) - 4 problems
12. University of Waterloo (Canada) - 4 problems

*AND*

Iirc, it was even BETTER for them in 2005 in the same contest.

2007 too -> Polish Students won ACM Programming Contest http://pbarut.blogspot.com/200... + Polish students prove best programmers in the world http://www.naukawpolsce.pap.pl...

Recently (2012) same deal "Russian, Polish Universities Take Top Spots in ACM ICPC Programming Contest" http://www.acm.org/press-room/...

TOTAL STATS FOR THAT PROGRAMMING CONTEST ARE HERE -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

APK

P.S.=> Yes, "I have a dog in this hunt" (I'm polish by descent, but 1st generation U.S. Citizen) & regarding Object-Pascal itself, I most *definitely* do (for great technical reasons shown here (yes, "shameless plug") http://developers.slashdot.org...

... apk

That smoking chimp is old news compared to this one: http://drawsiness.blogspot.com...

Cameras and GPS are for pussies....

Methane is far worse than CO2, up to 20x more "powerful" as a green-house gas. And we may have already hit a feedback point with the permafrost in Siberia melting and leaving giant holes in the ground from methane release. http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2014/08/horrific-methane-eruptions-in-east-siberian-sea.html has a good breakdown, and search google for "methan Siberia" to see the holes. It's also bubbling up from the continental shelf around there, but we can't easily see that (except for the bubbles)

The Aztecs put their money where their mouth is, and it didn't turn out too well for them. They had a saying, "You can eat money. It's delicious."

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This was an interesting article. However as UW's Cliff Mass has previously pointed out (And, today, he privately confirmed is still the case), NOAA is sitting on already-approved funds to purchase a weather modeling computer that's seen as a potential "game changer" for US climate modeling.

Over a year ago Congress approved the purchase of a computer that's roughly an order of magnitude more powerful than the pair mentioned in this article - but, because NOAA has a contract with IBM and IBM recently sold their server business to Lenovo, NOAA has been sitting on their hands regarding approval of the purchase of such a computer from a Chinese company.

So while the improvements mentioned in the article are better than nothing... in truth we should be a significant step beyond that by now.

As someone who has done research on banks and disclosed security holes (plug -- live exploits posted to http://privacylog.blogspot.com... not always obvious, not always interesting) I can tell you NOBODY cares.

I am still working up the balls or requesting legal advice to tell me I am in the clear so I can tell you the details. But to summarize, there are still **egregious** security failures out there and they can be found by just one person. If you find one of these things you will see too that it is possible to get the federal and industry agencies on the phone that you would expect to be interested in this stuff. But it is purely a courtesy. As soon as you hang up, they will go back to focusing on botnets or revenue-impacting issues.

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Here's a great post that illustrates this.

I'll see your myths and raise you some fallacies that you systemd proselytizers can't seem to wrap your collective heads around.

Even in phones, the idea isn't exactly new.

CloudFlare's servers will use SNI for free accounts, which is unsupported for IE on Windows XP and older, and Android Browser on Android 2.2 and older.

Lack of support for EOL'd web browsers is one roadblock for affordable HTTPS hosting. The other is that many major ad networks lack support for HTTPS, leading web browsers to block the ads as "mixed content." (AdSense added HTTPS support only a year ago.) And this is why Slashdot is among sites that redirect non-subscribers from HTTPS to HTTP because they subcontract advertising.

Outside of malicious HTTP headers landing in environment variable in CGI land, I'm hard pressed to think of another reasonable vector for this bug to be a problem...

This blog post mentions php, c++, python, et alia, as another attack vector.

This means that web apps written in languages such as PHP, Python, C++, or Java, are likely to be vulnerable if they ever use libcalls such as popen() or system(), all of which are backed by calls to /bin/sh -c '...'. There is also some added web-level exposure through #!/bin/sh CGI scripts, calls in SSI, and possibly more exotic vectors such as mod_ext_filter.

Nobody wants to see Netflix start shit like "this video is not available in your area".

Start?

maybe if Canadian shows were any good, they would get naturally popular as well. Fucking dumbasses.

Hell yeah. If Canada could produce anything as good as The Tudors, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Ray Bradbury Theatre, SCTV, Prisoners of Gravity, This Hour Has 22 Minutes or The Kids in the Hall, then they wouldn't suck.

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